The modern redistricting process (being gerrymandering) completely undermines the quality of a genuine democracy in the United States because it reduces electoral competition. Democracy is supposed to be the practice of social equality and gerrymandering is practicing the exact opposite of that. State legislators are intentionally drawing the districts lines for their party’s own political gain and this is unacceptable. They are basically choosing their voters, which clearly brings a political bias.
According to Lyle Denniston, the National Constitution Center’s constitutional literacy adviser, “It is essential to the core theory of a democracy, that the people rule, and do so with equal political authority. That has come to be known as the
According to Lyle Denniston, the National Constitution Center’s constitutional literacy adviser, “It is essential to the core theory of a democracy, that the people rule, and do so with equal political authority. That has come to be known as the